Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Today we're going to talk about how to get rid of low back pain very fast.

Now, there are several causes of low back pain, but there are two main causes that are the most

common. And then I'll cover the things that are not as common as well. And the first big cause of low back pain is

excessive sitting. And did you realize that the average person in the U.S. sits between 10 and 15

hours a day? That's incredible. They're driving. You go to work, they sit there, or they're working from home,

they're sitting, they're working on their computer, and then they go home and watch TV while

they're sitting. And so sitting puts your body into this flex state. Okay. Now, the thigh muscles,

which are the quadriceps, they're drawn upward in a flex state. And the quadriceps main function

is a flexer. So it extends the lower leg in the foot. And it also helps flex the femur upward.

The other flexor in the lower back is the soas. And so the quadricep and the soas muscle,

if you're sitting for a long

period of time, are going to shorten. So as soon as you stand up, they're going to be tight. And that's

going to alter the pelvis, which is then going to cause compensation to your lower back muscles

and put your lower back muscles in a constant state of tightness or contraction.

And so when you sit for a long time, you get shortened quadricep muscles.

You get weak gluteus muscles.

That's your butt muscle.

In fact, your butt actually reshapes.

It becomes flatter, becomes flabby, it becomes atrophied because of our flexors are too tight, and we don't have

strong extensers, which are the opposite muscles that counter that, which is the glutes,

then your low back has to take up the slack. That's really where a lot of low back pain comes

from. So the best stretch for this is the quadricep stretch. And I recommend doing the standing.

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